7,712 Quotes About Books

Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!Search the fading letters findingSteadfast in the broken bindingAll that once was I!

All I need to dois place my pen against paperand your lovewrites for me.

I can lend you my money not my books.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

It doesn’t matter how long it takes Ba ga Mohlala to claim their Glory,but it will be done

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.